Tailed tailless bat, Anoura caudifer, and lesser tailless bat, Glossophaga caudifer.

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Tailed tailless bat, Anoura caudifer, and lesser tailless bat, Glossophaga caudifer. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Maina, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest French botanical illustrators of the 19th century.

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